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bake

(bāk)

v. baked, bak·ing, bakes

v.tr.

1. To cook (food) with dry heat, especially in an oven.

2. To harden or dry (something) by subjecting to heat in or as if in an oven: bake bricks.

v.intr.

1. To cook food with dry heat.

2. To become hardened or dry by or as if by having been subjected to the heat of an oven.

a. The act or process of baking.

b. An amount baked.

2. A social gathering at which food is cooked by baking and then served.

[Middle English baken, from Old English bacan.]

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bake

(beɪk)

1. (Cookery) (tr) to cook by dry heat in or as if in an oven

2. (Cookery) (intr) to cook bread, pastry, etc, in an oven

3. (Ceramics) to make or become hardened by heat

4. (intr) informal to be extremely hot, as in the heat of the sun

5. US a party at which the main dish is baked

6. (Cookery) a batch of things baked at one time

7. (Cookery) Scot a kind of biscuit

8. (Cookery) Caribbean a small flat fried cake

[Old English bacan; related to Old Norse baka, Old High German bahhan to bake, Greek phōgein to parch, roast]

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bake

(beɪk)

v. baked, bak•ing. v.t.

1. to cook by dry heat in an oven or on heated metal or stones.

2. to harden by heat, as pottery.

3. to dry by or subject to heat: The sun baked the land.

v.i.

4. to prepare food by baking it.

5. to become baked.

6. to feel hot; swelter.

[before 1000; Middle English; Old English bacan, c. Old High German bahhan, Old Norse baka]

bake

Past participle: baked
Gerund: baking

Imperative
bake
bake

Present
I bake
you bake
he/she/it bakes
we bake
you bake
they bake

Preterite
I baked
you baked
he/she/it baked
we baked
you baked
they baked

Present Continuous
I am baking
you are baking
he/she/it is baking
we are baking
you are baking
they are baking

Present Perfect
I have baked
you have baked
he/she/it has baked
we have baked
you have baked
they have baked

Past Continuous
I was baking
you were baking
he/she/it was baking
we were baking
you were baking
they were baking

Past Perfect
I had baked
you had baked
he/she/it had baked
we had baked
you had baked
they had baked

Future
I will bake
you will bake
he/she/it will bake
we will bake
you will bake
they will bake

Future Perfect
I will have baked
you will have baked
he/she/it will have baked
we will have baked
you will have baked
they will have baked

Future Continuous
I will be baking
you will be baking
he/she/it will be baking
we will be baking
you will be baking
they will be baking

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been baking
you have been baking
he/she/it has been baking
we have been baking
you have been baking
they have been baking

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been baking
you will have been baking
he/she/it will have been baking
we will have been baking
you will have been baking
they will have been baking

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been baking
you had been baking
he/she/it had been baking
we had been baking
you had been baking
they had been baking

Conditional
I would bake
you would bake
he/she/it would bake
we would bake
you would bake
they would bake

Past Conditional
I would have baked
you would have baked
he/she/it would have baked
we would have baked
you would have baked
they would have baked

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bake

To cook in an oven or oven-like appliance.

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Verb	1.	bake - cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven; "bake the potatoes" cookery, cooking, preparation - the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat; "cooking can be a great art"; "people are needed who have experience in cookery"; "he left the preparation of meals to his wife" ovenbake - bake in an oven; "ovenbake this chicken" fire - bake in a kiln so as to harden; "fire pottery" shirr - bake (eggs) in their shells until they are set; "shirr the eggs" cook - transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes"
	2.	bake - prepare with dry heat in an oven; "bake a cake" create from raw material, create from raw stuff - make from scratch
	3.	bake - heat by a natural force; "The sun broils the valley in the summer" broil heat, heat up - make hot or hotter; "the sun heats the oceans"; "heat the water on the stove"
	4.	bake - be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun; "The town was broiling in the sun"; "the tourists were baking in the heat" broil be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"

bake

verb

1. cook How did you learn to bake cakes?

2. get too hot, roast, warm up, overheat, grow hot If you closed the windows you baked.

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bake

verb

To feel or look hot:

broil, burn, roast, swelter.

Translations

خبزيُجَفِّفيَخْبِزيَخْبِزُ

péciupécivysušit

bagestege

backen dörren trocknen ausdörren

ψήνω

cocer al horno cocinar endurecer hornear

paistaa uunissa

cuire au four dessécher cuire

peći

megsülpörkölsülsütszárít

baka

cuocere cuocere al forno latta del forno lievito in polvere pirofila

焼く

굽다

duonos parduotuvėiškeptaskaitintikepėjaskepimas

apdedzinātceptkaltētsacietēt

bakken

bake steke

piec upiecwypalać

assar

печь печься испечь испечься

peči v pečici

baka

อบ

fırında pişirmek kurutmakfırınlamak

nướng bằng lò

烘焙烤烤干

bake

[beɪk]

A. VT

1. [+ food] → cocer (al horno); [+ bricks etc] → cocer
to bake one's own bread → hacer el pan en casa
baked beans → judías fpl en salsa de tomate
baked potato → patata f or (LAm) papa f al horno

2. (= harden) → endurecer

B. VI

1. [person] I love to bake → me gusta hacer pasteles/pan al horno

2. [bread, cake] → hacerse en el horno

3. (fig) (= swelter) we were baking in the heat → nos asábamos de calor

C. N (Brit) (Culin) pastel salado cocinado al horno esp con verduras o pescado

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bake

[ˈbeɪk]

vt [+ bread, cake, biscuits, pastry] (= make) → faire (= cook in the oven) → faire cuire au four
Bake the cake for 50 minutes → Mettez le gâteau au four pendant cinquante minutes., Faites cuire le gâteau au four pendant cinquante minutes.
to bake a cake (= make) → faire un gâteau
to bake a potato → faire une pomme de terre au four

[bread, cake, biscuits, pastry] → cuire (au four)

[person] (= make cakes) → faire des gâteaux (= make bread) → faire du pain (= make pastries) → faire de la pâtisseriebaked beans npl → haricots mpl blancs à la sauce tomatebaked potato n → pomme f de terre au four

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bake

(Cook) → backen; baked apples pl → Bratäpfel pl; baked potatoes pl → in der Schale gebackene Kartoffeln pl

pottery, bricks → brennen; (sun) earth → ausdörren

(Cook) → backen; (cake) → im (Back)ofen sein

(pottery etc) → gebrannt werden, im (Brenn)ofen sein

(inf) I just want to lie in the sun and bake → ich möchte mich in der Sonne braten lassen

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bake

[beɪk]

1. vt (bread, cake) → cuocere (al forno); (bricks) → cuocere
she baked a cake today → ha fatto un dolce oggi
baked potatoes → patate fpl (con la buccia) cotte al forno

2. vi → cuocersi al forno

bake

(beik) verb

1. to cook in an oven. I'm going to bake (bread) today; She baked the ham.

2. to dry or harden by heat. The sun is baking the ground dry.

baked adjective

baked ham; freshly baked bread.

ˈbaker noun

1. a person who bakes. He is a qualified baker; She is a good baker.

2. a baker's shop.

ˈbakery – plural ˈbakeries – noun

a place where baking is done and / or where bread, cakes etc are sold. I bought some cakes at the bakery.

ˈbaking noun

the act or art of cooking bread, cakes etc.

baking powder

a powder used to make cakes etc rise. This sponge cake is very flat – you can't have used enough baking powder.

a baker's dozen

thirteen.

bake

→ يَخْبِزُ upéci bage backen ψήνω cocinar, hornear paistaa uunissa cuire au four peći cuocere al forno 焼く 굽다 bakken bake upiec assar печь baka อบ fırında pişirmek nướng bằng lò 烘焙

bake

vt hornear, cocer al horno

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Toto howeled a little as the assortment of bake stuff struck him; but he stood still, with head bowed and tail between his legs, until Dorothy ran up and inquired what the matter was.

"Then," said he, "we will put you into the great ovens where we are made, and bake you."

So she decided to go, and calling to Toto and Billina to follow her she marched up the street with as much dignity as possible, considering that she was followed by the hoots and cries of the buns and biscuits and other bake stuff.

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But, however, I found afterwards from Patty, that William said it was all the apples of that sort his master had; he had brought them alland now his master had not one left to bake or boil.

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These I burned in the fire, as I had done the other, and laid them by; and when I wanted to bake, I made a great fire upon my hearth, which I had paved with some square tiles of my own baking and burning also; but I should not call them square.

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He came as a Baker: but owned, when too late-- And it drove the poor Bellman half-mad-- He could only bake Bridecake--for which, I may state, No materials were to be had.

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On occasion, in a casual sort of way, when she thought hunger pinched hardest, she would send him in a loaf of new baking, awkwardly covering the act with banter to the effect that it was better than he could bake. And again, she would send one of her toddlers in to him with a great pitcher of hot soup, debating inwardly the while whether she was justified in taking it from the mouths of her own flesh and blood.

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She was there and smelt it, but never did a thing, for she said, when I undertook to bake bread I must give my whole mind to it.

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When he saw that his mother was going to bake, he determined to hide.

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When she took the paste out to bake it, she left smears of dough sticking to the sides of the measure, put the measure on the shelf behind the stove, and let this residue ferment.

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Bayer's experimenal attempts to bake off volatile organic chemicals emanating from new modular room partitions and particle-board samples (taken from an Atlanta office building) failed to eliminate the chemicals' smell and offgassing.

Bake-offs may not cure 'sick buildings.'

BAKE for at least 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.